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Are "forging ahead" and "forging a check" from the same forge?

There are many things you can do with the word forge in English. You can forge ahead (which, confusingly enough, can mean either "move slowly and steadily" or "move with a sudden increase of speed"), you can forge a check or a painting (make something fake), or you can forge a sword (make something real). The senses that relate to creating something (either real or fake) come from the same Latin word that gives us fabric, which is fabricare ("to fashion, construct"). We are not certain where the “movement” senses of forge come from, except insofar as we know that they are from a different origin than the “creation” senses of the word.

Plenty of Trump's opponents have noted that this is exactly the kind of thing Russian President Vladimir Putin would want festering inside the coalition that was
forged largely to protect against his country.

In invoking the West, Dreher could have looked at more recent hallmarks: the agreements
forged in the aftermath of World War II on human rights, say, or the duty of rich nations to care for desperate people displaced by violence.

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Ben Bronz Academy, which works with students with learning disabilities, is moving to a new location on Wampanoag Drive in West Hartford and will
forge a new partnership with Northwest Catholic High School.

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